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NO. 203.
SURPRISE WITNE0
BLAMES YAM AS HI. A
VIACARTHUR ACTS
TO HALT JAPAN'S
BEND MAN KILLED
BEAST OF BELSEN
AND AIDES GUILTY
PACIFIC SHIPPING
NEAR CRISIS OVER
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Soviet Aided Chinese Reds
In Occupying Northern
Area Is Chungking Belief
Chungking, Nov. 16 (U.R)
Russo-Chinese relations today
appeared to be approaching a
"crisis over growing belief in
government circles that Russia
deliberately has aided Chinese
communists to establish them
elves in Manchuria.
There were indications the
Chinese communists already
have established themselves so
strongly in the north that the
central government will be un
able to dislodge them in Man
churia. Say Treaty Violated
Government circles believed
tacit Soviet assistance to the
Chinese communists violated at
least the spirit if not the letter
of the three-months-old Sino
Russian treaty of friendship and
alliance.
Reports from the north in
dicated that the central govern
ment may be preparing to with
draw 300 officials from Chang
chun and abandon the Man
churia capital to the commun
ists. Chinese observers pointed out
that the Russians first allowed
communist forces to enter south
ern Manchuria and entrench
themselves along the frontier,
thus making it impossible for
rationalist troops to come in by
land.
The Russians then allowed the
communists to occupy the Man
churian seaports, preventing the
landing of central government
troops by ship.
Air Use Blocked
And now they have prevent
ed Chungking from using air
fields in Manchuria until- the
communists could establish
themselves in a position to shoot
down or disarm any airborne
forces which Gen. Chiang Kai
shek might attempt to bring in.
As a result of these develop
ments, observers said they
would not be surprised to see a
change in relations between
Chungking and Moscow.
MARINES TO HIT
AT
Shanghai, Nov. 16 (U.R) Lt.
Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer an
nounced today he has authoriz
ed U. S. marine commanders to
take "appropriate action" in
cluding air attacks, if necessary,
to halt attacks upon U. S. mar
ines which have been made from
a small village between Tang
shan and Chinwangtao. -
The village is communist-held
and has been a center for at
tacks against coal trains guard
ed by U. S. marines. .
Wedemeyer said he had di
rected his commanders to move
against the village after taking
precautions for the safety of
civilians provided the attacks
continue to endanger American
lives.
Wedemeyer said that Maj.
Gen. Keller E. Rockey, com
mander of the U. S. marine mis
sion at Tientsin, reported that
the coal trains had been under
rifle fire from the town several
times and that 300 yards of the
track had been destroyed by
land mines, injuring some
Chinese wotkmen.
haroldTloyd wins
plagarism decision
Hollywood. Nov. 16 (U.R)
Universay Picture stole film
sequences from silent movie
star Harold Lloyd and used
them in re-makes. Federal Judge
Ben Harrison ruled today.
"This is a deliberate case of
plagarism," he said in announc
ing his decision.
Attorney Julian Abies, repre
senting Universay, drew Harri
son's anger with gestures and
an "aggressive manner." The
Judge warned him "You can't
get away with that here."
Victory Loan Drive
"E" Quota $525,000
"E" Sales to Date
$109,652
Remainder to sell $415,388
Manila,- Nov. 16 (U.R)
Japan's former naval command
er in the Philippines made a
surprise courtroom appearance
today to swear that Gen. Tomo
yuki Yamashita's Japanese army
command alone was responsible
for the rape of Manila.
The new witness, Vice Adm.
Denshichi Okoochi, was brought
from a prisoner of war camp to
back up the presecution charge
that the Japanese naval troops
who committed many of the
frightful Manila atrocities actu
ally were under Yamashita's
command.
In a trembling voice, Okoochi
testified that he turned over
command of . the 20,000 naval of
ficers and men in Manila to
Yamashita on Jan. 6, 1945, more
than a month before the city fell
to the Americans.
Yamashita twisted in amaze
ment as the. bald, bespectled
Japanese admiral took the wit
TELLS. OF
E
Dachau, Nov. 16 (U.R) A
former inmate of Dachau told
a U.' S. military court today of
nightmarish nazi experiments
on human guinea pigs which
caused hundreds of deaths in
agony at the notorious concen
tration camp.
Josef Blaha, graduate of the
Prague medical . school, who
landed in Dachau in 1941 after
two years of surveillance by
the gestapo, testified at the trial
of 40 nazis on charges of mur
dering countless thousands of
brutally mistreated inmates of
the camp.
Blaha's testimony was a grisly
story of horror on a mass scale.
He told of ruthless experiments
on living prisoners, of torture
rivaling that in the middle ages,
and of the "liquidation' of
thousands of Russian inmates
who were given the worst treat
ment of all.
Blaha said he saw the bodies
of 6,000 to 8,000 Russians carted
off to the crematorium. At one
time, he said, 96 Soviet generals
and colonels were marched to
the crematorium, shot through
the back of the neck, and their
bodies burned. Attendants ex:
traded their gold teeth before
the bodies were thrown into the
furnaces.
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Issaquah, Wash., Nov. 16
(U.R) Blinded by swirling
clouds, Seattle Aviatrix Mrs.
Alice Donohue Wolpert, 25, was
killed when she flew her small
trainer plane into the wooded
peak of a 2,300-foot mountain
four miles from here, a 15-year-old
farm boy back from the
crash scene said today.
Missing since yesterday on a
20-minute flight to the airport
here from Kent, Wash., the
pretty aviatrix was found dead
in the plane's wreckage by
ground parties after Search
Pilot Al Lockwood sighted the
wreckage, crumpled near an
airline radio beacon on the
mountain top.
Grangers Told
Should Include
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 16
(U.R) M i 1 1 o n S. Eisenhower,
president of Kansas State col
lege, today advocated before
the national grange convention
expansion of the parity concept
to include all major groups in
our modern economy.
"American agriculture estab
lished the parity idea." Eisen
hower said, "which in effect
says that farmers should get an
income that allows them to buy
at fair exchange the goods they
need. The parity concept in
agriculture has its greatest use
fulness in the realm of public
understanding and acceptance
of a fair goal."
Pointing out that agriculture
and industry are interdepen
ness stand and he glared angrily
at his fellow-commander.
"I notified Yamashita that I
was turning over the command
to him and was leaving the same
day for Baguio," Okoochi said,
obviously struggling to retain his
composure under Yamashita's
venemous stare.
Mrs. Beatriz Sapinoso, another
witness, said the Japanese
dragged her husband off last
Dec. 16 and apparently killed
him.
She said two Japanese officers
tortured her in her home at
Imus. 4
"They stripped me naked,
forced me to the floor and burn
ed my entire body with cigar
ettes, including my vital pcrts.
Then they placed an iron bar
across my neck and stepped on
the ends, at the same time beat
ing me with a rubber hose.
"When 1 fainted, they revived
me with water and repeated the
torture. They laughed."
Strikes in Brief
By United Press
' Strikes and shutdowns Idled
more than 303,000 American
workers today. The major dis
putes: Transportation 25,000 driv
ers and helpers began a walkout
which stopped truck shipments
on lines operating from Chicago
through Minnesota. Korth and
South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri,
Nebraska, Kansas and part of
Wisconsin, A strike of 500 AFL
teamsters in Denver crippled
transcontinental motor freight
service. Bus drivers' . strikes
snarled transit in Staten Island,
N. Y., and Tulsa, Okla.
.
Automotive United Auto
mobile Workers (CIO) charged
the major auto manufacturers
with forcing a "costly and ter
rible" strike throughout the in
dustry, following a halt in wage
negotiations with the General
Motors Corp.
Steel CIO steelworkers
went ahead with plans for a
nationwide strike vote before
the end of the month in support
of demands for a $2-a-day wage
boost.
Food A strike of machin
ists and bakery wagon drivers
held up milk and bread deliver
ies In the San Francisco bay
area) San Francisco grocery
clerks prepared to walk out to
morrow over demands for a $6
weekly pay raise.
Lumber Prospects bright
ened for settlement of an eight
week work stoppage among
AFL lumber workers, who left
their jobs eight weeks ago in
demands for an industry-wide
$1.10 minimum hourly wage.
Navy Radio Here
Expands Power
Enlargement of the naval
radio station located near the
local fair grounds from 400
watts to 5,000 watts, as was the
original intent, Is being com
pleted, according to word from
the civil aeronautics adminis
tration, received yesterday by
Frank Rogers, city superinten
dent. The station was constructed
early in July.
NAZI DOOMED
London, Nov. yiS (U.R)
Joseph Hoffman, Nazi com
mandant of the infamous Mai
danek prison camp in Poland,
has been sentenced to death by
the Polish people's court at Lub
lin, radio Moscow reported last
night.
Parity Plan
All Groups
dent, Eisenhower told the
grange it is to the interest of
each to see that the other gets a
fair return.
"But who among us, as a citi
zen whose judgment should be
paramount, knows what is a
fair return for labor, for capital,
for management, transportation
or professional service?" he
askd.
"We must expand the parity
concept quickly so that we can
know what fair returns are so
that all groups can obtain
economic justice.
"We require at once a parity
formula for American labor.
That formula should be so con
structed that labor receives its
fair share of the national in
come, no more, no less."
Immediate Order Issued
When Government Says
Control System Futile
Tokyo, Nov. 16 (U.R) The
Japanese government said to
day that a system of price con
trol for foods was "in a state
of complete collapse" and one
official forecast widespread food
riots for next spring in Japa
nese cities not garrisoned by
American troops, i
Gen. Douglas MacArthur or
dered into immediate operation
a Japanese plan to combat the
black market by abolishing
present price controls on perish
able foods, "almost all" of
which the government admitted
are being sold illegally.
Mayor Tells Need
New prices will be higher
than present government ceil
ings but well below the black
market, the government said.
The allied order followed by
a few hours the arrival in Tokyo
of Mayor K. Kanai of Suwa City,
a mountain town of 40,000 popu
lation in Nagano prefecture
where many residents of Tokyo
and Yokohama fled for safety
from allied bombings during the
war.
Kanai said that some of the
refugees already had died of
starvation and that others had
committed suicide rather than
beg food after their funds had
been exhausted.
Legal moves toward democra
tization of Japan's totalitarian
political and economic structure
were reported progressing.
Hundreds of letters from Japa
nese have been received ex
pressing interest in a series of
factual articles being prepared
by SCAP on the war which will
include accounts of Japanese
atrocities, it was stated.
navyWtain
Washington, Nov. 1 6 (U.R)
Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscher,
deputy chief of naval air oper
ations, reported today that the
naval air station of Astoria,
Ore., was scheduled to be main
tained at full operation "as far
as I know."
Fate of the station was In
question more than two months
ago during naval affairs com
mittee hearings. At that time it
was agreed that separate hear
ings would be held on Astoria,
but subsequently, on Oct. 17, the
station appeared on a "tenta
tive" list of navy surplus
facilities.
DeGaulle Denies
Resigning Office
Paris, Nov. 18 (U.R) Gen.
Charles DeGaulle at 6 p. m. to
night issued an official denial
that he had yet resigned his of
fice. DeGaulle issued a formal
statement saying he has not yet
sent any letter to the president
of the assembly, Felix Gouin.
and that no official communique
has yet been issued by his office.
Idaho-Maine Spuds Take Bite Test
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of Idaho and Maine as Gov. Horace A. Hildrcth of Maine (left) and Gov
Charks O. Gnsaett. Idaho, put It up to Judges In potato contest h' ld In
Senate re&Wurant, V,'t-in;rn. .'Klines were ladKi of Howe of Repre
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Attempt to Pass Log Truck
Kills One Hero Brother
Seriously Injured
George W. Mirich, the "one
man army" of the Aleutians
who won the distinguished
service cross on Attu, was in
jured seriously last night in an
automobile accident that killed
his brother, Michael W. Mirich,
27, of Bend..
State police said a car driven
by the discharged war hero
collided with a logging truck
near the underpass at Ashland.
Mirich suffered several face
lacerations and other Injuries,
but will recover. His brother
was killed instantly. Michael
Mirich had just returned from
army service in the South Paci
fic. George Mirich received his
discharge early this year and
took over a service station in
Salem. He won his second high
est American valor medal for
a one-man attack on a Japa
nese strong point on Attu is
land, and later for leading a
squad against a fortified hill on
Chicago pass. He was wounded
and received the purple heart.
The fighting sergeant was with
the 96th division and enlisted
from Klamath Falls, Ore. His
mother, Mrs. Mildred Mirich,
lives in Bend.
According to Deputy Coroner
C. W. Litwiller the Mirich car
was heading south on Highway
99 at about 45 miles an hour
when the driver, George Mirich,
attempted to pass a logging truck
going the same direction.
In driving too close to the
truck, he failed to clear a pro
truding log, which sheared off
the top of the right side of the
coupe, . crushing his brother's
skull and killing him instantly.
The injured driver was res
cued from the wreckage by two
passing motorists and rushed to
the Ashland hospital.
E. H. McNab, Route 2, box 43,
Ashland, was also a witness to
the accident.
DEPORTING JAPS
Portland, Ore., Nov. 16 4U.R)
After his long confinement in
Japanese prison camps, Gen.
Jonathan M. Wainwrlght hasn't
changed his mind about Japs.
Any Japanese who renounced
his American citizenship is no
different from any other alien
Jap who does not have citizen
ship and "if the government
wants to deport them, I'm In
favor of It," the defendor of
Corregidor declared upon his
arrival in Portland today.
While unfamiliar with a new
legal move of Japanese to re
gain the citizenship renounced.
Wainwright was scornful of the
maneuver. He was eager to be
informed how 1,000 Japs in the
Tule Lake relocation center,
who voluntarily gave up citizen
ship and said they wanted to
return to Japan, now had gone
into Son Francisco federal court
to regain their rights.
Lueneburg, Germany, Nov. 16
(U.R) A British military tribunal
today found Joseph Kramer,
commandant of the Belsen con
centration camp, guilty of war
crimes.
Kramer, known as the "Beast
of Belsen," was the chief defend
ant of the 45 on trial before the
military tribunal.
He was found guilty on both
counts of the indictment brought
against him of mass cruelty and
killing of inmates of Belsen and
also of inmates of the equully
notorious Auschwitz camp.
Sentence Tomorrow
Sentence was expected to be
Imposed upon him tomorrow.
There was no doubt that it would
be the death penalty.
Dr. Fritz Klein, 58, Rumanian
and graduate of the Budapest
Medical school, also was found
WITH 32 FIRES IN
By Eldon Barrett
United Press Staff
Correspondent
Salem, Ore., Nov. 16 U.R)
Now that the shooting is over
In the Oregon woods state and
federal forest officials are tak
ing inventory of damage caused
by careless nlmrods during the
month-long hunting season.
Probably the greatest damage
not including the loss of hu
man life was the result of fire.
Hunter's campfires, warming
fires and cigarettes kept crews
busy long after the regular fire
season ended.
32 Fires Charged ,
A total of 32 fires were charg
ed to hunters by state and as
sociation units during the first
two weeks of the hunting sea
son. These 32 fires burned over
a total of 40!) acres of forest and
grassland and kept 54 state fire
fighters and numerous hunters
on the fire lines.
The national forest took a
severe beating from fires dur
ing the hunting season. Some
Individual hunter-caused fires in
the national forests burned more
than 1,000 acres of forest and
brush land before they were
controlled.
Damage to future deer crops
was done by careless and wan
ton destruction 'of does and
fawns.
Cattle Shot
Cattlemen complain that
many of their herds were shot
when mistaken for deer.
Nimrods hunting In the pine
forests of eastern Oregon report
ed a serious lack of bucks as
compared with previous years.
But forest officials are wonder
ing If it wasn't just a problem
of a great increase in the size of
the red hat brigade.
Then there is the story at for
estry headquarters here of now
the assistant ranger in the Snow
Mountain district of the Ochoco
National Forest solved the prob
lorn of evacuating hunters from
a hazardous area without so
much as a small argument.
This unidentified ranger wait
ed until most of the menfolk
were out prowling for game.
Then he casually dropped into
camp still occupied by a few
women and indisposed males
and hinted that a serious fire
was raging nearby and that be
fore long hunters probably
would be on the fire line. Re
turning a little later he found
the camp spot Inhabited only
by a few squirrels and magpies.
Discharge Point Score Cut
To 55 For Men; 32 For Wacs
Washington, Nov. 16 (U.R)
The War department today low
ered the discharge point score
for male enlisted personnel from
60 to 55, effective Dec. 1.
lt also announced other
changes in the discharge system
which will make an additional
783,000 servicemen and women
eligible for return to civilian life.
The discharge score for en
listed WACS will be reduced on
Dec. 1 from 34 lo 32 and for
male officers from 75 to 73
points. WAC officers still will
need 37 points for discharge.
All enlisted men with three or
more dependent children under
1 18 years, and all married WACS
guilty on both charges.
A huge crowd gathered at the
courthouse to hear the verdicts.
Spectators in the courtroom were
searched for arms before being
allowed to enter.
Irma Grese, 22, blonde, pistol
packing woman guard at Belsen,
and Peter Weingartner, 30-ytar-old
Yugoslav peasant and SS
worker, also were found guilty
on both counts.
Hoessler Guilty
Franz Hoessler, 39, Kramer's
chief lieutenant at both Ausch
witz and Belsen, was found
guilty on the Auschwitz charge.
Juana Bormann, known as the
"Woman with the Hound" whteh
she set on the prisoners, was
found guilty on the Auschwitz
count but not the Belsen charge.
E. Ehlcrt was found guilty as
regards Belsen and George Kraft
was acquitted on both counts.
Miss Nina Tuttle
First Applicant
In Queen Contest
To Nina Tuttle, charm
ing daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. S. M. Tuttle of Valley
View Drive, goes the honor
of being first applicant In
the Victory Queen contest,
being sponsored by Med
ford Post of the American
Legion in the Interests of
the Victory Loan drive.
Miss Tuttle, a vivacious
brunette with many friends
In the valley, was selected
by the Rotary Club whose
membership has pledged
whole-hearted support In
their efforts to send their
representative to Portland
for the state finals.
Applicants may secure
application blanks at the
Chamber of Commerce or
at the Craterlan Theatre.
EVICT OPA HEAD
Los Angeles, Nov. 16 (U.R)
Attorney Fred I. Rlchman today
petitioned for permission to
evict 377 tenants, including an
OPA rent director from three
apartment houses he said he can
no longer afford to operate.
Richman was the first to net
among 1,700 landlords who yes
terday announced they would
withdraw their apartments from
the rental market. Landlords
admit the "rent strike" is de
signed to force the OPA to re
move rent restrictions.
The attorney promised that
servicemen could stay on rent
free. Ho said he was losing
money in the three apartments
because of rent ceilings, high tax
rates and Inability to use rent
for Improvements because of
lack of materials. Later, Rich-
man said, he would enter poll
tions to withdraw more apart
ment houses.
UNO HOME OFFERED
London, Nov. 16 (U.R) New
York City's mayor-elect William
O'Dwycr has offered the 1,200
acre site of the 1039 world fair
to the United Nations for Its
future home, lt was disclosed
today. His invitation was in the
hands of the UNO secretariat
along with three other late of
fers from Atlantic City, N. J.,
Hyde Park, N. Y., and Denver,
Colo.
If you can't afford to buy Vic
tory Loan Bonds outright have
your employer deduct an
amount each week until enough
has accumulated to buy a Vic
tory Bond and then keep on
having that amount deducted.
who entered the service prior to
May 12 will be discharged unon
application after Dec. 1.
Previously, WACS had to be
married to discharged service
men to be eligible for separation
from the service.
Also eligible for discharge on
application will be enlisted per
sonnel with four years' service.
Details of the new demobiliza
tion schedule:
Male enlisted personnel will
be eligible for discharge If llu-y
have (1) 55 points as computed
on Sept. 2, 1945, or (2) four years
of honorable military service, or
(3) three or more children under
18 years of age dependent upon
them.
JAPAN ESEATTAC K
Pearl Harbor Probe Shows
American Navy Long Ex
pecting Jap Aggressions
Washington. Nov. 18 (U.R)
The Pearl Harbor Investigation
developed testimony today that
the navy began convoying Paci
fic shipping 13 days before the
Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
Rear Adm. T. B. Inglis, chief
of naval intelligence, testified
that Adm. Harold R. Stark,
chief of naval operations at the
time, ordered escort service for
trans-Pacific shipping on Nov.
25, 1941. ,
Inglis said he did not know
why the escort service was or
dered. Messages Intercepted
The committee, however, re
leased intercepted Japanese
espionage and diplomatic mes
sages which indicated U. S. of
ficials knew well before the
convoy order went out that
Japan was plotting new aggres
sions. In a message to his govern
ment on Nov. 10, 1941, Japanese
Ambassador Nomura told of a
conversation here with an uni
dentified U. S. cabinet officer
who said the American govern
ment had received reliable re
ports that Japan "will be on the
move soon."
"Our boss, the president, be
lieves those reports and so doea
the secretary of state," Nomura
quoted the cabinet officer as
saying.
This same Informant, No
mura's message said, told him
that (in Nomura's words) "the
United States cannot stop now
because If Japan moves some
thing will have to be done since
lt Is a question of the United
States saving its face."
Inglis' testimony about the
convoy order was brought out
through questioning by Sen.
Homer Ferguson, R., Mich.,
early in the second day of pub
lic hearings in the congressional
investigation into the Pearl
Harbor disaster.
MERRILL GUILTY '
JURY'S VERDICT
Robert Ben Merrill, charged
with assault with intent to rob,
was found guilty Thursday eve
ning by a circuit court jury, W.
C. Blankenship, Medford, fore
man. The Jury started delibera
tions at 4:30 p. m., took time out
for dinner and returned the ver
dict at 7:55 p. m.
Merrill, with four felony and
eight misdemeanor convictions
on his record, took the verdict
calmly. Under Oregon law the
penalty for his latest conviction
is from five to 20 years. He is
also under a year's sentence in
the county jail on a plea of
guilty to jail break last August.
Sentence will be passed by Judge
Herbert K. Hanna Saturday in
the assault conviction.
The trial started last Tuesday
with District Attorney Georga
W. Nellson representing thst
state and Attorney George A.
Codding the defense.
DREAM BOY'S GIRL
IS FREE10N BAIL
Los Angeles, Nov. 16 (U.R)
Sonny Wisccarver's latest mar
ried girl friend was freed on
bond today, charged with con
tributing to the 16-year-old great
lover's delinquency.
Sonny himself remained in
jail downstairs while the 25-year-old
Mrs. Eleanor Deveny, mother
of two, was arraigned and then
freed after her brother posted
S500 to ensure her appearance
Nov. 27
She was demure in manner
and dress when Judge A. A.
Scott notified her of the charge.
In contrast to her previous rap
turious statements about the
deep and enduring passion Sonny
had lavished on her, she mur
mured: "I've said too much already."
8LAYER REPRIEVED
Sacramento, Calif., Nov. 16
(U.R) I.t. Gov. Frederick F.
Houser late last night granted
a reprieve to Jan. 25 to Marvin
Llndley, convicted slayer of a
13-year-old girl, who was sched
uled to die in San Quentin's gas
chamber at 10 a. m. today.
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